Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
mind lasts judgment
Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
birthday lost-youth mourning
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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Malice is always authentic and sincere.
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
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Listening to people keeps them entertained.
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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
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Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
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The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
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Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
literature tone moral
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.